On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:41:13AM -0400, Kenneth Chiu wrote: >I'm trying to diff two large directories, recursively, and >I'm getting this error: > > $ diff -rq B B2 >diff.out > diff: memory exhausted > >I looked at this URL > > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-maxmem.html > >but it seemed out-of-date. There was no such key in the >registry, and the options to the regtool were different from >what the regtool man page says. > >Any suggestions on how to get rid of the memory >exhaustion error? Is there a new key path that I should >use for the heap_chunk_in_mb value? Is it possible >that I'm simply bumping into a 2 GB limit for >32-bit processes? (And if that is the case, >is there a recommended way to go to 64-bit?)
AFAIK, this is just a limitation of diff. You can get the same error on linux. This was discussed in some detail in this list a few months ago. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
